GOVERNMENT EDUCATION GETTING DUMBER

"Dumb and Dumber" was not only a 1994 comedy classic; it might also be the phrase that describes the science performance of American high school students for years to come.

The U.S. Department of Education recently reported that science aptitude among 12th-graders has declined during the past decade. America continues to graduate students who know less and less about the world because Americans, dominated by lust for material consumption and personal comfort, raise kids who lack vision for learning directed at making the world a better place

Visionless parental pragmatists actually dissuade their children from taking courses that they don't "need" if there's not a direct future financial benefit. How can you not "need" more knowledge about the world furnished by any legitimate area of intellectual inquiry?

This seemingly pragmatic obsession with financial reward obscures the moral and, ironically, economic value of education. -Anthony Bradley

If the moral decline of our public/government educational system is not enough reason to pull your kids out maybe it getting dumber will.